According to Telegraph.co.uk, the German-based company may, in the next few weeks, “submit a bid for Sprint”, currently the third largest US mobile carrier.

Like T-Mobile USA, Sprint (which has a market value of about $10.6 billion) isn’t doing too well lately, losing customers to AT&T and Verizon, as well as to smaller carriers.

If Deutsche Telekom will indeed buy Sprint and merge it with T-Mobile USA, the resulted carrier would have about 78 million customers – almost as many as AT&T. Of course, a problem in merging the two carriers is the fact that T-Mobile uses GSM/UMTS frequencies, while Sprint is a CDMA operator. Well, we’ll see soon what happens.